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Training American listeners to perceive Mandarin tones
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Auditory training has been shown to be effective in the identification of non-native segmental distinctions. In this study, it was investigated whether such training is applicable to the acquisition of non-native suprasegmental contrasts, i.e., Mandarin tones. Using the high-variability paradigm, eight American learners of Mandarin were trained in eight sessions during the course of two weeks to identify the four tones in natural words produced by native Mandarin talkers. The trainees’ identification accuracy revealed an average 21% increase from the pretest to the post-test, and the improvement gained in training was generalized to new stimuli (18% increase) and to new talkers and stimuli (25% increase). Moreover, the six-month retention test showed that the improvement was retained long after training by an average 21% increase from the pretest. The results are discussed in terms of non-native suprasegmental perceptual modification, and the analogies between L2 acquisition processes at the segmental and suprasegmental levels.
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- Authors
- Wang, Y., Spence, M. M., Jongman, A., & Sereno, J. A.
- Venue
- The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
- Publisher
- Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
- Published
- 1999-12-01
- Volume
- 106
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 3649-3658
- ISSN
- 0001-4966 (ISSN-L)
- 1520-8524
- OpenAlex
- W2029908195
- Cited by
- 521
- References
- 25
- FWCI
- 2.65
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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